Mozart: reimagined
Mozart: Reimagined provides fresh looks at one of our most familiar composers by refracting the master’s music through contemporary sources: a completion by Robert Levin, little-known pieces by Messiaen and Pärt in the style of Mozart, and my own chamber arrangement of one of his piano sonatas. To open this dialogue between Mozart and artists of our time, the program features a concert adaptation of my TEDx talk, which draws parallels between classical string quartets and Seinfeld in order to explain how to hear narrative and dramatic elements in music without a plot.
Sample program:
TEDx talk concert adaptation: "Music About Nothing: Seinfeld and the Classical Style"
Mozart: Clarinet Quintet fragment in B-flat major, K. Anh. 91 [completed by Robert Levin]
Messiaen: Chant dans le style de Mozart for clarinet and piano (1986, unpublished)
Pärt: Mozart-Adagio (1992/2005) [adapted for clarinet, cello and piano]
Mozart: Tema con variazioni from Piano Sonata No. 11 in A major, K. 331 [arranged for clarinet quintet by Graeme Steele Johnson]
Sample program:
TEDx talk concert adaptation: "Music About Nothing: Seinfeld and the Classical Style"
Mozart: Clarinet Quintet fragment in B-flat major, K. Anh. 91 [completed by Robert Levin]
Messiaen: Chant dans le style de Mozart for clarinet and piano (1986, unpublished)
Pärt: Mozart-Adagio (1992/2005) [adapted for clarinet, cello and piano]
Mozart: Tema con variazioni from Piano Sonata No. 11 in A major, K. 331 [arranged for clarinet quintet by Graeme Steele Johnson]